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Two former premiers were to heckle him—Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hooting of owl and barking of fox came from the forest on his right, whilst far away to the left the waves broke dully against the cliffs.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

When he heard the owls at midnight, Hooting, laughing in the forest, "What is that?" he cried, in terror; "What is that," he said, "Nokomis?"

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Hooting with her horn she crept past three lorries and drew abreast of the fourth; then, misjudging, she let the tip of her low mudguard touch the front wheel of the foremost lorry.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid

Hooting savagely, with wings half uplifted, they struck about them with their terrible beaks till they had secured room for themselves at the banquet.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir